Browsing by Author "Hughes, Brian M."
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50 years of psychological research on patients with copd – road to ruin or highway to heaven?
Kaptein, Ad A.; Scharloo, Margreet; Fischer, Maarten J.; Snoei, Lucia; Hughes, Brian M.; Weinman, John; Kaplan, Robert M.; Rabe, Klaus F. (Elsevier BV, 2009-01-01) -
A systematic review of physiological reactivity to stimuli in autism
Lydon, Sinéad; Healy, Olive; Reed, Phil; Mulhern, Teresa; Hughes, Brian M.; Goodwin, Matthew S. (Informa UK Limited, 2014-10-30)Objective: The prevalence of abnormal behavioural responses to a variety of stimuli among individuals with autism has led researchers to examine whether physiological reactivity (PR) is typical in this population. This ... -
A taxometric analysis of type-d personality
Ferguson, Eamonn; Williams, Lynn; O’Connor, Rory C.; Howard, Siobhán; Hughes, Brian M.; Johnston, Derek W.; Allan, Julia L.; O’Connor, Daryl B.; Lewis, Christopher A.; Grealy, Madeleine A.; O’Carroll, Ronan E. (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2009-11-01)Objective: To test the dimensionality of Type-D personality, using taxometric procedures, to assess if Type-D personality is taxonic or dimensional. Type-D personality is treated as a categorical variable and caseness has ... -
Benefit of social support for resilience-building is contingent on social context: examining cardiovascular adaptation to recurrent stress in women
Howard, Siobhán; Hughes, Brian M. (Informa UK Limited, 2012-07-01)Previous work on social support and stress tolerance using laboratory-based cardiovascular stress response paradigms has suggested that perceived social support may be effective in building resilience in recipients. However, ... -
Clinical anxiety, cortisol and interleukin-6: evidence for specificity in emotion–biology relationships
O’Donovan, Aoife; Hughes, Brian M.; Slavich, George M.; Lynch, Lydia; Cronin, Marie-Therese; O’Farrelly, Cliona; Malone, Kevin M. (Elsevier BV, 2010-10-01) -
Comparison of behavioral intervention and sensory-integration therapy in the treatment of challenging behavior
Devlin, Sarah; Healy, Olive; Leader, Geraldine; Hughes, Brian M. (Springer, 2010-12-14)The objective of the current study was to compare the effects of sensory-integration therapy (SIT) and a behavioral intervention on rates of challenging behavior (including self-injurious behavior) in four children diagnosed ... -
Conscientiousness and mindfulness in midlife coping: An assessment based on MIDUS II
Sesker, Amanda A.; Ó Súilleabháin, Páraic; Howard, Siobhán; Hughes, Brian M. (Wiley, 2016-02-03)Research has demonstrated that conscientious individuals tend to engage in planful problem solving to cope with stressful situations. Likewise, mindful individuals tend to favour approach-based coping and are less likely ... -
Construct, concurrent and discriminant validity of type d personality in the general population: associations with anxiety, depression, stress and cardiac output
Howard, Siobhán; Hughes, Brian M. (Informa UK Limited, 2012-02-01)The Type D personality, identified by high negative affectivity paired with high social inhibition, has been associated with a number of health-related outcomes in (mainly) cardiac populations. However, despite its prevalence ... -
Dyadic concordance in mother and preschooler resting cardiovascular function varies by risk status
Creaven, Ann-Marie; Skowron, Elizabeth A.; Hughes, Brian M.; Howard, Siobhán; Loken, Eric (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-09-11) -
Erratum to: heart rate measurement during stereotyped motor behavior in autism spectrum disorder
Lydon, Sinéad; Healy, Olive; Mulhern, Teresa; Hughes, Brian M. (Springer Nature, 2015-09-17) -
Heart rate measurement during stereotyped motor behavior in autism spectrum disorder
Lydon, Sinéad; Healy, Olive; Mulhern, Teresa; Hughes, Brian M. (Springer Nature, 2015-08-14)Previous research has suggested that a relationship may exist between physiological arousal and engagement in motor stereotypy among children and adolescents with autism. It has been speculated that levels or alterations ... -
Individual differences in the impact of attentional bias training on cardiovascular responses to stress
Higgins, Niamh (2013-03-28)Introduction. The present research examines the effect of threat-related attentional bias - the tendency to direct attention towards information in the environment that is threatening or negative -on anxiety responses to ... -
Matching intra-procedural information with coping style reduces psychophysiological arousal in women undergoing colposcopy
Kola, Susanna; Walsh, Jane C.; Hughes, Brian M.; Howard, Siobhán (Springer Nature, 2012-06-24)This study assessed the combined effects of coping style and intra-procedural information on indices of distress (physiological measures, observed distress, self-report measures of anxiety and affect) among a group of ... -
Modelling social support in the laboratory: Effects on cardiovascular function.
Creaven, Ann-Marie (2013-02-20)Introduction. The present research examines the utility and validity of social support - that aspect of social relationships involving the provision and receipt of emotional or tangible assistance - as a buffer of ... -
Openness to experience and stress responsivity: an examination of cardiovascular and underlying hemodynamic trajectories within an acute stress exposure
O’Súilleabháin, Páraic S.; Howard, Siobhán; Hughes, Brian M. (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-06-18)The personality trait openness to experience has been implicated in health, and in particular cardiovascular wellbeing. In a sample of 62 healthy young female adults, the role of openness in cardiovascular responsivity ... -
Perceived social support predicts lower cardiovascular reactivity to stress in older adults
Howard, Siobhán; Creaven, Ann-Marie; Hughes, Brian M.; O’Leary, Éanna D.; James, Jack E. (Elsevier BV, 2017-04-01) -
Response to a letter to the editors re: “Comparison of Behavioral Intervention and Sensory-Integration Therapy in the Treatment of Challenging Behavior”
Healy, Olive; Hughes, Brian M.; Leader, Geraldine; Devlin, Sarah (Springer, 2011-06-01)[No abstract available] -
Salivary cortisol levels and challenging behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder
Lydon, Sinéad; Healy, Olive; Roche, Michelle; Henry, Rebecca; Mulhern, Teresa; Hughes, Brian M. (Elsevier BV, 2015-02-01) -
Socially relevant personality traits and attenuated cardiovascular functioning
Lee, Eimear M. (2013-04-04)Introduction. Previous research has implicated certain personality traits in the aetiology of cardiovascular disease. One common theme in such research is that traits that impinge upon social interactions and relationships ... -
The association between openness and physiological responses to recurrent social stress
Lü, Wei; Wang, Zhenhong; Hughes, Brian M. (Elsevier BV, 2016-08-01)